...Raised and home-schooled by her conservative,
Christian family, Steffenhagen started learning more about alternative
viewpoints when she entered college at Concordia University in
Mequon. Steffenhagen said her political views really shifted from
liberal to socialist when she realized it was implausible to achieve
what she was told — get a degree, a salaried job with good benefits and
own a home in a good neighborhood.
She doesn't talk
to her family right now because of her political views. Steffenhagen
described her family as middle class. Neither of her parents graduated
from college.
"They didn’t realize capitalism was
screwing them over — not the welfare state," she said. "They wanted to
say they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps."
Steffenhagen said her parents have dismissed her ideas.
"People do get more conservative as they age," she said. "I hope that doesn’t happen to me." ...
Actually, sweetie, the people who get 'more conservative' are people who matured, not just "aged." There are plenty of socialist twits who are past the age of 60, and it ain't pretty on them.
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Concordia? The LCMS outfit?
Yup. Tells me that the parents are probably Missouri, too.
Like I said, I have sympathy for the parents, who obviously did as much as they could to raise her right.
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